What we are listening to [2021-01 to 2021-03]

More grist to the chamber pop mill, am enjoying this :slight_smile:

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That’s missing from Qobuz.

It’s on Spotify so I’ll give it a listen there.

I am a big ā€žFanā€œ of Purcell. He wrote some amazing couterpoint 50 years before Bach.

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I see Roons Chamber Pop classification as Pop/rock accompanied by tradttional classical Instruments.

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It’s not long ago that you thought I’d recommended the Emily James album and I rightly 'fessed up that ā€œit wasn’t meā€.

However, I’ll take a credit for this one :wink:

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Purcell is a pretty recent discovery for me but have quickly become a fan. Am intending to give the album you posted a listen later.

Meanwhile this is a suitably upbeat accompaniment to the sounds of hoovering and steam cleaning.

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It’s on Tidal, Linn Records…

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This really is quite brilliant. Classical elements, rock and electronica. Her composing roots showng through on this one.

Awake But Always Dreaming is a record about memory: the luminous and beautiful formation of memories and the devastating loss or slow, insidious damage to the mind. The album has the feel of a dream where all of daily life is being expressed and decoded, from feverish rush-hours to the old sunlight of her grandmother’s fading memories. Peel switches between panoramic city images in ā€˜Standing On The Roof Of The World’ and the dissolving, hallucinogenic moments that define the second half of the album. The album’s closer is a cover of Paul Buchanan’s (The Blue Nile) ā€˜Cars In The Garden’ which returns memory to childhood – ā€œfind the place that we forgot.ā€ Performed with her trademark music box and by way of a sublimely coaxed out, bittersweet duet with Hayden Thorpe from Wild Beasts, this is another fine shift in tone and perspective – from the grandeur and chaos of tracks such as ā€˜Foreverest’ to something very simple, surreal and yet utterly moving and memorable.

If you hadn’t named yourself after such a good album, I would recommend changing your handle.

Good recommendation :+1:t2:

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A dark lullaby…

Based on the Lamkin ballad

unfortunatly not all their issues are on every streaming service.

Thanks for supporting your local newspaper and highlighting this release…

Edit: Sorry, I misunderstood the lyrics which I thought were befitting the gospel genre present throughout the album. But it reads as follows, ā€œCheck your egos at the door.ā€

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Your welcome, John.

Here’s an idea, I think Mr. Lanois should do a Dub mix of these tracks. It would be awesome!

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Highly recommended!

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I’ll go discover this one in a while… :sunglasses:

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